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    The surname Elsea

    A surname, carried by 1,277 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex E420

    Elsea: #20,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Elsea #20,709, 1,277 people Elsea: #20,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Elsea #20,709, 1,277 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Elsea is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,277 people named Elsea in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,254.

    #20,709
    rank among US surnames
    1,277
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #19,840)

    Who is named Elsea

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Elsea identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • Two or more races 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Elsea

    Elsea has the Soundex code E420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Elsea?
    1,277 people in the United States had the surname Elsea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Elsea?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Elsea identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Elsea getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,254 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 1.8%.